Available from - High Country Roses
www.highcountryroses.com

Princesse Charlene certainly is regal, with a sturdy, upright habit, healthy bright-apple-green foliage, and blushed apricot blooms. A hint of yellow in the center gives them an ethereal quality. The petals/blooms are more substantial than the David Austin roses I own, so they are slow to shatter and don't shrivel in the heat of summer. When fully opened, the flat blooms look like little ballerinas dancing atop the long stems. Her divine fragrance is a mixture of champagne, soft old rose, clementine, candied ginger, and apricot.

This is a rose that looks beautiful in all its photographs, but is still lovelier in person. It's enchanting.

Mine is own-root from Heirloom Roses, planted in-ground three months ago where it receives more than 10 hours of daily sun. It took off straight away, but has looked it's best in the past 2-3 weeks, as have most of the roses I planted in the spring. Though I've had it for a short time, Princesse Charlene has withstood heavy late-spring rains, regular high winds, and my hot/dry summer with no problems (so far). I'll update my review after it's gone through winter (7b).